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Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses

(www.reuters.com)
265 points ajaviaad | 2 comments | 02 Apr 20 14:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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chvid ◴[02 Apr 20 15:42 UTC] No.22760237[source]▶
I thought here in the west that it was well-established that temperature checks and mask do not work against the corona?!
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1. ravenstine ◴[02 Apr 20 15:47 UTC] No.22760292[source]▶
Temperature checks don't seem to work particularly well if enough people carry the virus without symptoms, but if I'm to believe that masks don't impede the movement of sneeze droplets, then I'm the King of Finland.
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2. umanwizard ◴[02 Apr 20 17:08 UTC] No.22761167[source]▶
The point of temperature checks, or any mitigation measure, is not to reduce spread to 0, but to decrease it.

Why don’t you think temperature checks work? Are you aware that even stopping 1/3 of transmissions would have a massive effect on the final outcome?